Design and Fabrication of Areca Fiber Extraction Machine

Abstract — This paper focused on fabrication of areca fiber extraction machine. This is basically removing fiber from areca husk. The areca husk is outer cover of areca nut which consists of fiber. These fibers are being extracted manually. This has several problems such has time consuming, low production rate, human error, low quality fiber, more workers and skilled labours. This paper aims to overcome these problems by fabricating areca fiber extraction machine which automates the fiber extraction process. This machine consists of 3 phase ac motor which is directly coupled to driven shaft. The driven shaft is enclosed in a casing which is designed in such a way that only dust is removed and fiber comes out of rectangular duct at lower side of casing. The driven shaft is supported by two bearings and has blades which are designed by modifying the blade design of coconut husk decorticating machine. Thus this machine will be helpful for rural entrepreneurs and farmers. Keywords—Areca fiber, Blade, Extraction machine. I